Pierre-Marie Termier
Pierre-Marie Termier (born July 3, 1859 in Lyon , † October 23, 1930 in Grenoble ) was a French geologist .
Born in Lyon in the Rhône department as the son of Joseph François Termier and Jeanne Mollard, he enrolled at the École polytechnique at the age of 18 . After 1880 began studies at the Mining Academy in Paris, the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris , which he with the graduation graduating, he became a professor at the Mining Academy in Saint-Etienne . In 1894 he moved to Paris, where he taught for the rest of his career.
In 1909 he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences in the mineralogy branch . In 1911 he became director of the French geological survey and in 1930 vice-president of the Académie des Sciences. Since 1925 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
In the course of his work as a geologist, he carried out geological studies in the Alps , as well as in Corsica and North Africa . He was a proponent of the ceiling theory and took the view that ore formation is caused by tectonic forces.
In 1903 he transferred the thrust ceiling theory to the Eastern Alps and declared the Tauern to be a tectonic window for the first time . With him began the great modern syntheses of ideas about the Eastern Alps.
The Dorsum Termier ridge on the moon is named after him.
Geological writings
The list does not claim to be complete.
- Etude sur la constitution géologique du massif de la Vanoise (Alpes de Savoie). Bulletin des Services de la Carte geologique de la France et des Topographies souterraines, Tome 20, No. 20, 147 pp., Librairie Polytéchnique Baudry, Paris 1891. ISBN 1-85233-782-6 .
- Le massif des Grandes-Rousses (Dauphine et Savoie). Bulletin des Services de la Carte Géologique, No. 40, tome VI, 118 S. Baudry et. Cie., Paris 1894. ISBN 3-549-05632-X .
- Les montagnes between Briançon et Vallouise. (Ecailles briançonnaises, terrains cristallins de l'Eychauda, massif de Pierre-Eyrautz, etc.). 182 pp., Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1903.
- Les nappes des Alpes orientales et la synthèse des Alpes. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, Série 4, tome 3, pp. 711-766, 1903.
- Les alpes entre le Brenner et la Valteline. In: Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 4e série, tome V, pp. 209–289. Paris, Société géologique de Grance, 1905.
- Le massif cristallin ligure. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 4e série, tome XII, 1912 (with Jean Boussac).
- Sur l'un desproblemèmes tectoniques du R'arb (Maroc). Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 4e série, tome XXVIII, 1928.
Literary works
- L'Atlantide - Bulletin de l'Institute Océanographique de Monaco, Vol. 256, pp. 1-146, 1913.
- A la gloire de la terre. Souvenirs d'un geologue. 425 p., Desclée de Brouwer & Cie, Paris 1922.
- La Derive des Continents. Monaco 1924.
- La joie de connaître. Souvenirs d'un geologue. 327 p., Desclée de Brouwer & Cie, Paris 1929.
- La vocation du savant. Souvenirs d'un geologue. 265 p., Desclée de Brouwer & Cie, Paris 1929.
- Les grandes enigmes de la terre. 96 p., Flammarion 1935.
Web links
- Pierre Marie Termier (1859–1930), Annales des Mines .
- Literature by and about Pierre-Marie Termier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Termier, Pierre-Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1930 |
| Place of death | Grenoble |